In remarks laced with scientific inaccuracies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while directly contradicting researchers within his own agency on a primary driver behind rising rates of the condition in young children.
This is the Republican modus operandi:
“This is the fantasy we want to believe. And if the facts do not support our fantasy, we will accuse you of lying to us and call for your death.”
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The FOIA staff got DOGEd real early on. They were one of the first people to get it.
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Oh shit, glad to hear it. May the spirits be ever in your favor.
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Don’t want to kill your vibe, but in my country if you submit some request it will go from submitted, to received, to under review, to reviewed, to taken under consideration, to addressed, to being dealt with, to dealt with, to finished considering, to completed with the first few days and then you hear nothing for weeks or months and suddenly you get a letter with a decision (or the thing you applied for or a written decline or whatever). You end up getting something here and I hope you will too, but those status updates never seem to say much lol
Dude dried to chainsaw a rotting whale head to take home with him.
I believe the clinical term is “A stack of bricks short of a stack of bricks.”
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they have some gender affirming medication for that.
In a convenient little blue pill!
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gotta be careful. that warning about ‘3 hour erections’ is no joke.
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Yeah! That’s some Ida Tarbell level stuff.
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Don’t you love how a commitment to telling the truth has become a neurological disorder in our society?
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Rfk is preventable, as the cia proved in 1963
1968?
He’s referring to JFK, who was assassinated in 1963.
It makes more sense to refer to RFK Sr. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
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Republican.
I can think of a few others as well
Why not just say the n-word instead? He sucks, right. So call him a n****r. Pick your favorite slur.
Maybe, just maybe, we can find a way to insult mother fuckers without attacking other groups? Hmm?
As a mother fucker, could you find a different term to avoid offending me please
A nutter?
a Nacho chip double dipper
“People who annoy you”
Asshole.
I mean everybody has one but not everybody is one.
No but I don’t want mine to be associated with him, also assholes are quite useful so
A Nagger
Where did he get his relevant PhD from again?
Ah, so even worse than “Cracker jack box”.
The DeVry University of Nepotism.
He got his relevant business model based on vaccine public panic and autism nonederstanding is what really matters here.
Source?…. Trust me bro, I have a good feeling.
It is from RFK’s hole: The cavity where a worm starved to death.
I listened to him speaking, and his message really came across as personal incredulity from my vantage point.
He’s like your uncle Ronnie that always has random facts and if you ask him where he learned it from, he always says “I read it somewhere” or he starts off with “I read somewhere”. Lmao, and the followers just eat it up.
hes also on roids right now too.
This man will kill millions of people.
I mean… Trump said there wouldn’t be positive COVID tests if we didn’t test, so maybe RFK is going to borrow that method of preventing autism by not testing and documenting.
This is the dumbest circus show ever.
You know why autism rates have “increased”?
Because we understand a lot more about the condition now, and are a whole fucking lot better at determining whether a person may be on the spectrum or not - a “spectrum” that, I should add, is a whole fucking lot more nuanced and less binary than the “he’s a good worker” vs “let’s hold Timmy back a couple grades” dichotomy that you would have seen up through the late 90s and early 2000s.
By some estimates, 20% of the population is expected to be neurodivergent in one way or another. Autism and ADHD are wildly underdiagnosed to this day. Especially for AFAB people.
and its also genetic, and not organically caused by chemicals.
Also because preventative factors like obesity, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, etc are strongly linked to having an autistic child
Sure. But the fact remains that autism prevalence in the general population probably looks a lot like the graph about left-handedness of the population throughout the 1900s - that is, logistic growth: growing, but settling towards a relatively steady percentage of the population. Btw, if anyone has a graph of that handy, please post it.
Someone please shut this stupid grifter up.
I mean, technically? If all your kids get sick and die, congratulations! You prevented them from getting autism!
Who cares anymore? This man is unfit to hold the position. I’d rather focus on us IMMEDIATELY removing this administration whatever means necessary, than highlighting the latest nonsense of RFK, outburst of Trump/Musk, or stupidity of Vance
Since autism is preventable, does that mean we’re going to exile autistic children and their mothers for playing part in some sort of crime? Since we’re going full-scale Nazi, it only makes sense for RFKJ to follow in the footsteps of Mengele.
RFK already floated the idea of work camps for autistic and ADHD kids.
I’m certain one of America’s And then they came for… moments will be for people with “full-blown autism.”
Actually the Nazis identified autism and they were given jobs in intelligence.
“Autism is preventable”- says the guy with a brain worm.
The brain of an autistic person is literally built different in the womb, but of course he doesn’t want to admit that. Autistic brains are usually noticably more symmetrical with more long distance connections and fewer local connections.
But he has chosen a different “truth” to act on because he wants to feel special.
The problem with that theory is that it is based on science, they use a different base. I’m not sure what it is yet, but it’s obviouslult not science. Maybe it is just wanting to be special, but even then it doesn’t make sense to me.
Desire. Selfishness. They want what they want and they “don’t have to explain themselves to you.” When that’s your basis, there is no cause and effect, there are no consequences, and there are no reasons why they can’t.
